Originally Posted by
TheWeatherman
Not at all. They so over did it last year with new FO classes there is a huge surplus. The training delays won't really put much of a dent in it. Even with the attrition of FOs to other places and upgrade, when training ramps back up again we will still have more FOs then when we did before the hiring boom.
I get that, but if they actually award the number of lines they’re expecting to in March, there will be (unless I’m reading something wrong, entirely possible) only a single-digit number of trained FO’s for reserve. There’s another 20 or so at the bottom of the list, but those will not be through training until May/June. I guess the answer is to make the line pilots fly more hours?